Table 1.
Major phases in inner and peripheral layers (minor phases in italics) in 23 samples of prostate stones, along with presence of urinary infection and bacterial imprints.
Table 2.
Nature and frequency of main chemical phases in 23 prostatic stones.
Figure 1.
Fixed-effects SEM of prostatic stones.
Red arrows show bacterial imprints. a) prostatic carbapatite-amorphous carbonated calcium phosphate (CA-ACCP) stone without any visible imprint; b) spherical prostatic CA stones without any visible imprint; c) prostatic CA-ACCP stone; d) prostatic ACCP stone, e) prostatic CA stone; f) prostatic CA-whitlockite stone. Bar, 4 µm.